Private Investigator Cyrus Smithe's life has just taken a turn for the worse
- his partner Harry Weston is dead The cops are out to pin it on him & the only solid proof he has to clear himself is a tiny gadget that could grant ten million sentient robots their freedom the Medusa Key Robot detectives gorilla thugs French gangsters & Russian mobsters heat things up as Cy Smithe & Kate Weston track her father's killer through a sea of double & triple crosses to find the elusive piece of technology that's the key to the mystery